Whittaker Chambers Quotes

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Whittaker Chambers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1901 - July 9, 1961

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On the road, I might go to the hotel gym. When I know I won't be dancing or working out, I spend time stretching. You have to stretch every day as a dancer. I do it whenever I can when it's not weird.

Jillian Hervey

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I don't like that word: feminist.

Megyn Kelly

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Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.

Stephen Harper

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I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

Tristan MacManus

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Neapolitans are extremely empathetic, whereas the typical northern attitude is more about not showing or sharing your feelings.

Toni Servillo

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The diet is a twisted, noxious thing, all tortured abstinence and short-term fraud. I speak from bitter experience. As a restaurant critic, I eat to live and live to eat. And having a toxic aversion to exercise, there is little to prevent the inevitable bulging of my gut. Hence the need for the occasional diet.

Tom Parker Bowles

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Pleasure is the carrot dangled to lead the ass to market; or the precipice.

Robinson Jeffers

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You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.

Jason Patric

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I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Doris Roberts

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My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

Colin Quinn

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I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

Cole Swindell

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I don't read fiction at all.

Brent Spiner

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